ILC Returns To Africa

May 15, 2007

Represented by CEO Randy Morse and Director of Teacher Training & Support Janet Mayfield, ILC returns to Africa after last fall’s successful meetings held in Simon’s Town, South Africa.

The destination this time is eLearning Africa 2007, a conference to be held in late May in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The response to the call for participants for the Nairobi event
from the African and international educational communities has been fantastic. The first eLearning Africa conference, held in 2006 in Addis Ababa, attracted over 800 participants and immediately established itself as a landmark for capacity building, networking, and collaboration for Africa. The registration of participants by late March 2007 for this year’s event was almost four times higher than it had been in March 2006 for last year’s conference.

The Opening Plenary for eLearning Africa will include a welcome from conference patron, the Hon. Prof. George Saitoti, Minister of Education in Kenya, as well as a number of keynote presentations from senior ministerial representatives from several African nations. The Opening Plenary will serve to launch the eLearning Africa conference as well as the many associated events and networking activities that surround this key event in the history of eLearning in Africa.

Morse and Mayfield will be joined by colleagues Professor Hassan Kaya South Africa’s North-West University) and Dr. Otsile Ntsoane (National IKS Office, Department of Science & Technology, Government of South Africa) in delivering a pre-conference workshop entitled “Indigenous Knowledge Systems & Appropriate ICT Solutions: An Educational Revolution for Africa.

During the course of their presentation the four participants will describe South Africa’s pioneering work in crafting a new approach to successfully capturing and disseminating indigenous knowledge in a variety of fields, and how by combining South Africa’s ground-breaking IKS work with ILC’s experience at crafting compelling digital learning resources for indigenous learners, a revolutionary new curriculum – one that is distinctly and uniquely African – may emerge.